DeKalb County Sentinel

City: Sycamore

County: DeKalb County

State: Illinois

The DeKalb County Sentinel was a newspaper in Sycamore, Illinois. Founded in 1854 as the Republican Sentinel, the paper was initially "Republican Democratic" in orientation before bcoming into a full-fledged Democratic organ in 1857. The publisher changed the name to the DeKalb County Republican in 1858. Staunchly proslavery, the newspaper employed Edward L. Mayo and Charles M. Chase as editors. The publication endorsed Stephen A. Douglas for a seat in the U.S. Senate over Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Federal Election. The paper changed its name to the DeKalb County Sentinel after the 1860 Federal Election, but the paper soon went out of business, and the company and subscribers were absorbed by the True Republican.

Nancy M. Beasley, The Underground Railroad in DeKalb County, Illinois (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013), 148, 151, 155-56; Henry L. Boies, History of DeKalb County, Illinois (Chicago: O. P. Bassett, 1868), 422; William H. Jeffrey, Successful Vermonters: A Modern Gazetteer (East Burke, VT: Historical, 1904), 240; Franklin William Scott, Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879, vol. 6 of Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1910), 331.